Based on a complaint from someone the State Police refuse to identify, three teams of officers converged last Thursday on the three bars, run by Leigh Maida and her husband, Brendan Hartranft. Checking their inventories against the state's official list of more than 2,800 brands, the cops seized four kegs and 317 bottles, totaling 60.9 gallons of beer, according to police calculations.
In fact, according to Maida, more than half the beer removed by the State Police was properly registered - but the cops couldn't find it on their lists because of "clerical errors" or "blatant ineptitude" between the police and the Liquor Control Board, with whom the officers were conferring by telephone.
La Torre said that the investigation was sparked by "a citizen complaint."
"It doesn't matter where the complaint is coming from," he said. "If there is merit to the complaint, we have to follow through with it. . . . We received a complaint regarding the licensee bringing in unregistered beers and we confirmed with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board that certain brands were not registered."
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Based on a complaint from someone the State Police refuse to identify, three teams of officers converged last Thursday on the three bars, run by Leigh Maida and her husband, Brendan Hartranft. Checking their inventories against the state's official list of more than 2,800 brands, the cops seized four kegs and 317 bottles, totaling 60.9 gallons of beer, according to police calculations.
In fact, according to Maida, more than half the beer removed by the State Police was properly registered - but the cops couldn't find it on their lists because of "clerical errors" or "blatant ineptitude" between the police and the Liquor Control Board, with whom the officers were conferring by telephone.
La Torre said that the investigation was sparked by "a citizen complaint."
"It doesn't matter where the complaint is coming from," he said. "If there is merit to the complaint, we have to follow through with it. . . . We received a complaint regarding the licensee bringing in unregistered beers and we confirmed with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board that certain brands were not registered."
All that on just a complaint? For unregistered beers? What kind of customer complains about a bar having beers not on a particular list? What kind of customer even KNOWS what's on the list of 2,800 permissible brands?
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--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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Re: Can anyone not see an abuse of authority here?
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
All that on just a complaint? For unregistered beers? What kind of customer complains about a bar having beers not on a particular list? What kind of customer even KNOWS what's on the list of 2,800 permissible brands?
Re: Can anyone not see an abuse of authority here?
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
All that on just a complaint? For unregistered beers? What kind of customer complains about a bar having beers not on a particular list? What kind of customer even KNOWS what's on the list of 2,800 permissible brands?
What is even more telling is the fact that many of the same beers are sold all over town and three bars were singled out all owned by the same owners. Someone is being targeted.
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Re: Can anyone not see an abuse of authority here?
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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
A customer with a grudge?
Or a member of the local government with a grudge and/or an agenda.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Re: Can anyone not see an abuse of authority here?
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
All that on just a complaint? For unregistered beers? What kind of customer complains about a bar having beers not on a particular list? What kind of customer even KNOWS what's on the list of 2,800 permissible brands?
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Originally Posted by Baron1710
What is even more telling is the fact that many of the same beers are sold all over town and three bars were singled out all owned by the same owners. Someone is being targeted.
More than likely this complaint was from a competitor, not a customer.
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